Need an app to multicast files

Symantec Ghost works wonders, but I'm unaware of it's ability to push just a cd image to an existing OS install...

What server are you running?

i use Ghost at work... to my knowledge it only restores partitions, essentially cloning pcs.

To my knowledge there is no facility for individual files (i dont think the in-image browser to restore files within an image will work) though as this is the only post i have to go on for now, i will investigate.

Thanks for your post.

DiDGE

I cant see how this would distribute to multiple clients, you can only enter one computer path...

the script was not quite the answer, but an ideea of what you could do with a simple .vbs script.
here is something more specific - but also is NOT COMPLETE !!! you must modify the script to meet your needs !!!
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technical resource
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/wmisdk/wmi/swbemservices_execmethodasync.asp
-------------------- the script-------------
' Connect to WMI
set Services = getobject("winmgmts:root\cimv2")

' Obtain the class definition object of a Win32_Process object.
Set oProcess = Services.Get("Win32_Process")

' Create the SWbemMethod.InParameters object to hold the input parameter needed
' for the Win32_Process.Create method call. The oProcess.Methods_("Create") call
' obtains a class object that defines the correct input parameters
' for the Win32_Process.Create call. The InParameters object is an
' SWbemObject object so SWbemObject.SpawnInstance_ can be called to create it.

Set oInParams = oProcess.Methods_("Create").InParameters.SpawnInstance_
' modification 1
oInParams.CommandLine = "Notepad.exe"

' Create sink to receive event resulting from the ExecMethodAsync call.
set Sink = wscript.CreateObject("WbemScripting.SWbemSink","Sink_")

'Call SWbemServices.ExecMethodAsync with the WMI path Win32_Process.

'modification 4

bDone = false
Services.ExecMethodAsync Sink, "Win32_Process", "Create", oInParams

' Call the Win32_Process.Create method asynchronously. Set up a
' wait so the results of the method execution can be returned to
' the sink subroutines.

' modification 5

while not bDone    
    wscript.sleep 1000  
wend

' Sink subroutines
sub Sink_OnObjectReady(oOutParams, oContext)
    wscript.echo "Sink_OnObjectReady subroutine " &VBCR & "ReturnValue = " _
    & oOutParams.ReturnValue &VBCR & "ProcessId = " & oOutParams.ProcessId
end sub

sub Sink_OnCompleted(HResult, LastErrorObj, oContext)
    wscript.echo "Sink_OnCompleted subroutine, hresult = " & hex(HResult)
    bdone = true
end sub
--------------end_of_script--------------

modifications:
1. you should replace "notepad.exe" with "cmd /k copy source "
2. create an array that contents all destinations
3. create another array of boolean values initiated with false (these two arrays must have the same length)
4. create a loop:
    str_temp = oInParams.CommandLine
    for i = 1 to len_array
        oInParams.CommandLine = str_temp & destinations[i]
        bDone[i] = false
        Services.ExecMethodAsync Sink, "Win32_Process", "Create", oInParams
    next

5. create aother loop for monitoring:  

while not show_ok
   sleep 1000
wend

function show_ok
    var_done = true
    for i = 1 to len_array
        var_done = var_done and bdone[i]
    next
end function

something like this !

i will need some time to check this out.... thanks for you post :o)

unfortunately i also have no time to do this modifications (and check them out)... but my guess is that they will work just fine !

i've got another solution...
it's a DOS Batch file... it should work fine in a dos box under Windoze:
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@echo off
FOR /F %i in (comp_list.txt) do cmd /c copy sourcefile %i
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requirements:
comp_list.txt - a text file with the names of computers on each line (comp with path WITHOUT SPACES!!!)

running:
the command parse the comp_list.txt data file and for each line in file executes the command:
cmd /c copy sourcefile %i

if the command is without cmd /c... than is executes sequentially !!!
with the cmd /c parameter... windows will start a new thread for the command and will return the control to the batch (so the next command is ready to go... and so on)

success !!!

question still open :-?

djdidge,
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